And which other dishes show off this sublime flavour combination (recipes for that strangely delicious gloopy cheese and onion sandwich filling particularly welcome)?
Hog has geographical scope too, recreating recipes from India (Goan pork vindaloo), Canada (pig's head poutine) and the Deep South, spiritual home of pulled pork.
The journals that contain them are school exercise books decorated with a collage of old product labels, cocktail recipes and advertisements for patent medicines.
We want people to fall in love with tea so we have recipes, images of farms and films about farms; it's really to make them feel that tea is relevant in their lives rather than just a commodity".
This BBC website has some great, easy-to-make recipes available for students.
As we weave between highway lanes towards the coast, Guzman explains he is currently creating an encyclopedia of Chilean food, called Endemics, about the country's edible ingredients and lost recipes.
Not all the recipes are generous enough with the butter, which can make the result rather dry.
Most recipes add the syrup as soon as or shortly after the pastries come out of the oven, so it can be absorbed as they cool, but Roden shares a highly "unorthodox secret trick" of her aunt Latifa's – she returns the syrupy baklava to the oven for five minutes, explaining that "the pastry made this way is among the best I have eaten".
Many recipes dodge the issue by pointing you towards "packet instructions", but Stein suggests dunking them in boiling water for two minutes, while Luu goes for 5 10 minutes, "until soft".
All the recipes are careful to remind you to rinse the noodles, to stop them cooking any further, and then to drain them thoroughly before use, or you'll end up with soggy summer rolls, which would be a sad thing indeed.
Though it is always made with yoghurt, Monir Mohammed and Martin Gray's book Mother India at Home, based on recipes from the former's Glasgow restaurant, has one which is equal parts buttermilk and milk, with just a couple of spoonfuls of yoghurt.
